We're starting off a summer of building the Green Party with some new literature! The above postcard is the first of several we're printing this year to educate San Franciscans about the Green Party and what we stand for. We're also making postcards on specific issues, such as Improved Medicare for All, Cutting the Military Budget, LGBTIQA+ rights, and local Green accomplishments. If you're good at graphic design and want to help, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

This June, we'll need volunteers at both the Haight St Fair and Pride to help staff our booths, talk about Green issues, and register new Greens. We'll focus at Haight St on building a base of volunteers who can help campaign for Single Payer Health Care (i.e., Improved Medicare for All) in California. Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you can volunteer.

Starting in the 3rd grade, kids in the SF public schools can spend up to 7 weeks of class time preparing for and taking standardized tests! These tests are no longer "high stakes" but they do replace valuable instruction time and are not the tests used by the teacher to evaluate or teach your child.

Most teachers do not find the majority of these standardized tests to be helpful in educating your kids, because the scores don't give teachers details on what questions were missed or what skills might need more practice. Except for the reading assessments given throughout the year (which teachers use to assign books appropriate for the child's reading level), these tests are an expensive waste of time that only serve the interests of the testing companies.

Fortunately, CA state law allows parents to opt out of any standardized tests, and your school is not penalized in any way! Opt-out forms must be turned in to your school's administrators every year. Here are the forms:

Please print them out for yourself and for other parents in your classroom who are interested!

In particular, parents should consider opting ot of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and the Interim District Assessments (IDA) tests, which are given in the spring. Teachers don't even get the scores on these tests until the end of the year, so taking these tests is of no benefit at all to the students.

You can ask your school to provide an appropriate curriculum for your kids while the others are taking tests. If enough kids in a single grade opt out, we will have more sway to get a classroom at each grade level to continue with regular instruction!

How Green is Your Supervisor?

This is our report card for the SF Board of Supervisors in 2016. It shows the most important votes in 2016, from a Green Party perspective, and whether each supervisor supported or opposed our position. Some of the votes are on amendments to legislation. Compare to our 2015, 2014, 2013, and 2012 report cards.

We are handing out the bookmark shown to the right (propositions are on the back). If you can help distribute bookmarks, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We will also mail our endorsements to all our members. If you can donate to help cover our printing and mailing costs, please use the "donate" link to the left!

A complete Green Voter Guide is now posted. Click "read more" to see full explanations of the reasons behind our endorsements.

YES on G - an almost meaningless renaming of the Office of Citizens Complaints, that will at least make their budget independent of the SFPD's budget

YES on H - decentralizing some of the Mayor's power into a new citywide elected Public Advocate position

NO on I - set-aside of some of the SF City Budget to a Mayor-controlled agency that would provide services to seniors and adults with disabilities (although we support more funding for this purpose, the Supervisors can fund such programs without creating a new agency that's ripe for corruption and unaccountable to the voters)

NO on J - set-aside of some of the SF City Budget to fund homeless services, housing, and transportation improvements (like Prop I, this would give more power to the Mayor, encourage corruption, and have less oversight by our elected Supervisors)

NO on P - a measure that encourage corruption by allowing the Mayor more opportunities to pick politically connected developers to build projects, with a lack of public transparency

NO on Q - symbolic "open sidewalks" measure to encourage police to ignore serious crimes and instead push homeless people from one block to the next

NO on R - misleading "safe neighborhoods" measure to create a full-time police unit specifically to push homeless people from one block to the next (it will create much more UNSAFE neighborhoods by taking police away from investigating serious crimes)

NO on S - set aside hotel tax income to be used for arts and programs to help homeless families. As is the case with Props I and J, these programs are something the Supervisors could fund now if they wanted to, without going to the ballot

An evening of Revolutionary Poetry, Music, and Politics with Green Party Presidential Candidate, Dr. Jill Stein and Candidate for SF Board of Supervisors District 11, Francisco Herrera at The Chapel, 777 Valencia St., SF CA. Local (and some not-so-local) luminaries will light up The Chapel stage October 6, 2016 from 6-10pm (Doors at 5pm). Both Dr. Jill Stein and Francisco Herrera will speak.

People of ALL AGES are welcome! Food and drink will be available for purchase. This event is wheelchair accessible.